A New System Reliability Optimization Model Based on Swapping Existing Components

Table 18

Comparison of parameters before and after optimization (Example 3).

System reliability	Component reliability	Component swapping	Cost
0.99896407	r1 = 0.920	None	312
(t = T)	r2 = 0.930
	r3 = 0.950
0.99975193	r1 = 0.893	[4 3; 6 7; 5 2]	250
(t = T)	r2 = 0.809	[10 11]
	r3 = 0.916	[12 16; 8 15]